Gun-magazine.



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GUN MAGAZINE.

.@PPUCATION FILED 1AN.31.19H.

OFFICE..

JULIUS F'RED HECKMANN, 0F LUPUS, MISSOURI.

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' specification of Letters raient) Patented J une 19, 1917.

Application led January 31, 1917. Serial No. 145,629v

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JULIUs FRED HECK- MANN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Lupus,` in the county of Moniteau and State ofMissouri, have invented a new and Improved Gun-Magazine, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description. y

My invention has for its object to rovide 16 a gun magazine havingopenings so t at the I A user may at any time ascertain the number ofshells or cartridges remaining in the magazine. As the openings arepreferably in the under side of the magazine, there is l5 little dangerof moisture or foreign matters entering the magazine through theopenings, while any foreign matter which may become disposed in themagazine will pass out through the openings when the gun is carried inthe usual manner.

` Additional objects of the invention will appear in the followingspecification, in which the preferred form of the invention isdisclosed.

' 25 In the drawings, similar reference charac- --ters denotesimilar-parts in all the views,

in which Figure 1 is a. side elevation of a gun provided with myimprovement, parts being 3 illustrated in section to showtheconstruction; and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged inverted plan view of the magazine, showing myimprovement. .-Iy referring to the drawings, it will be seen that thegun 5 has a barrel 6 and a magazine 7 disposed thereunder. rIheeartridgcs or shells 8 in the magazine are fed to the breech ot thebarrel (3 in anyapproved manner. Inthe under side of this magazine 7there are openings 9 which are spaced apart, one of these openings 9being vdisposed under the normal position of each cartridge or`shell 8so that the user of the gun may, by looking at the under side of themagazine, determine at a glance the number,

of cartridges 'or shells still remaining in the magazine. A slide handle10 which slides on the magazine has openings 11 in its underv slde whichregister with the openings 9 in the magazine when the slide handle is atrest. Inthis Way the number of cartridgesor shells in the magazine maybe determined,

Whether or not the cartridges or shells are in that portion of the maazine which is nor` mally inclosed by the slide handle 10.

Not only is it possible by means of the l openings 9 to determine thenumber of car- Patent A gun having a magazine with openings spaced apartat the normal cartridge or shell positions in the magazine, and a slidehandleS l for moving against the magazine and havipx'g" an opening forregistering with one of the ol'ienings in the magazine when the slidehandle is in normal position;

JULIUS FRED HECKMANN.

